His verdict is unambiguously damning. Since 1905 and the simultaneous Bloody Sunday massacre of peaceful protestors and loss of the war against Japan, Nicholas’s prestige had plummeted.

It’s 1894, the previous Tzar had just died and it’s time for a new one to be crowned. Nicholas II was crowned that year as Tzar of Russia. He was one of the worst leaders of the modern era. He was not ...

Had Nicholas II died after the first 10 years of his reign (he came to power in 1894), he would have been regarded as a moderately successful emperor. Ultimately, though, ...

As it must to all men, death came, last week, ... (1914-15), and second cousin of assassinated Tsar Nicholas II and last, whose successor he claimed to be.

Nicholas II's story ends in July 1918, with the cold-blooded slaughter of his entire family by Bolshevik agents--including five children, several of whom were bayonetted after watching their parents ...